Indian Line Farm is located in historic South Egremont, nestled in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Producing beautiful, bountiful vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits for our members and customers is our passion. Family favorite standards and heirloom varieties grow side by side in our fields. Because we follow sustainable organic practices our produce is Certified Naturally Grown. We steward this strip of fertile land as others have done for millennia before us, nourishing ourselves, our soil, our community. We stand behind all that we do.
OUR STORY
Elizabeth and Alex met as farm apprentices in 1995. In 1996 Elizabeth was working for Robyn Van En, one of the founding mothers of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, at Indian Line Farm. After Robyn’s untimely death in 1997 Al and Elizabeth entered into a partnership with The Nature Conservancy and The Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires to preserve Indian Line Farm as a working farm. Its cornerstones are farmland affordability, watershed and wildlife habitat conservation and community involvement in sustainable food production.
OUR LAND
The Indian Line is the approximately mile wide strip of fertile land the Housetunnock people chose to keep as their reservation in a deed of 1724. It extended from the Housatonic River in Massachusetts into New York. It contained hills and valleys, swamps, streams, springs, a veritable wild game preserve, berry patches and nut trees with one main brook, now known as Karner Brook. Our 17 acre farm occupies a portion of this tract and we are proud of this heritage. We embrace the legacy of stewarding this land. In 1985 Indian Line Farm became the first Community Supported Agriculture Farm and we have been proudly continuing this model.
OUR FAMILY and OUR CREW
Indian Line Farm is a true family farm. Not only have Elizabeth and Al’s beautiful children grown up here, so have many of the Indian Line Farm shareholders’ families. Many a young farmer has also blossomed out of Indian Line’s apprenticeship program, spreading our community of farmers far and wide. Indian Line Farm is an exciting place to work. Every season we have several apprentices, full time employees, working members and volunteers that help us make the farm a productive place.
We are proud to participate in the Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT) program and depending on the year can provide housing to apprentices.
